Bill C-309, the Concealment of Identity Law, is currently working its way through Parliament.
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Moments of Excess: Essential reading for Occupy and Quebec student activists
Moments of Excess: Movements, Protest and Everyday Life
(PM Press,
2011;
$16.95)
As attention turns toward the mass student strike on the streets of Montreal, ongoing for three months, the Quebec student movement clearly exemplifies the power that activism holds to shape our collective imagination.
The student protests distant from the halls of political power in Quebec City, are largely setting the terms of political debate on moves by the Quebec government to significantly hike post-secondary tuition fees.
Mic check! Dispatch from Occupy Wall Street
On the streets in New York City, popular protests are on the move, speaking to the dreams and demands of so many across the world.
Today, the Occupy Wall Street movement is on fire, from the thousands marching down Manhattan's boulevards demanding economic justice, to the inspiring voices practicing direct democracy in popular assemblies at Liberty Plaza.
Wall Street Protest: The revolution will be tweeted
#OccupyWallStreet is becoming a living laboratory for direct democracy.
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Using people power on the Hill and beyond
Brigette DePape says anyone can protest inequity and injustice.
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Vancouver protest against Israel's foreign minister today
Lieberman's appalling views and his visit to Canada should not be acceptable to anyone with a modicum of respect for human rights.
- Sid Shniad, Independent Jewish Voices.
What: Protest against Israel's foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman
When: 7:30pm, Monday, September 19, 2011
Where: Outside the venue where Lieberman is speaking, the Jewish Community Centre (Note: the centre is not the event sponsor), 950 W. 41st Ave, near Oak St., Vancouver.
Why: "We are extremely distressed by the Harper government's welcoming of this visit by Israel's extremist, racist foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, a man who has openly advocated ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians," said Sid Shniad, spokesperson for Independent Jewish Voices.
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